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Intense. president trump reeling a bit. just look at his tweet storms. the personal attacks he unleashed at his rally last night, which were going to get to in a moment. house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, is floating what looks like a trial balloon to potentially temporarily withhold the articles of impeachment from the senate. over concerns that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell isnt going to run a fair trial. mcconnell has admitted hes not acting as an impartial juror and that hes wor...

It was even clear from other testimony here that he was not comfortable with this connection being made. >> 100%. elie, so we have this memo from republicans outlining their strategy. and it includes some issues that are factually challenged, to say the least. some of the points, like saying, well, ukraine wasnt aware there was a hold on aid. thats been challenged by multiple different depositions under oath. other points like, well, the aid for ukraine withheld by the u.s. was lifted. that comp...

Better than anyone that perhaps the delay here is preparation for this and the communications discussions about how many questions that are going to take, on which side, to try to give the president of finland a little bit of breathing room so he can also answer questions relevant to some of the issues that you bring up but that the president is so incensed about what is going on. i think we have not seen him as fired up as he is now. tweet storms coming out pretty much every few minutes on this...

Court, so definance from the white house at this hour. this comes as secretary of state mike pompeo accuses democrats of bullying state department officials to get them to testify. democrats firing back in kind, saying the secretary of state runs the risk of obstructing justice if he does not comply with these requests. we are seeing these tensions mount. and president trump lashing out on twitter, andrea, a series of tweetstorms. and what is significant about that is that we know that the presi...

Than actually attacking our country, a foreign attack, no greater sin than trying to attack our elections. when our own person is doing it, not the russians but an american named donald j. trump, how can anyone stand for this? this is -- this must -- they must act and act quickly. we are in a dangerous situation. his tweet storms, i dont know, there were 23 in 23 minutes, is that right? >> yeah. >> there was something like -- >> and hes talking in a way that you want to take him literally or not...

Tweet storms throughout the weekend. hes taking sharp aim at the whistle-blower and adam schiff. the president tweeted adam schiff illegally made up a fake and terrible statement pretended to be mine as the most part part of my call to the ukrainian president and read it aloud to congress and the american people. arrest for treason. so that is some serious language to accuse the house intelligence committee chairman of, hallie, but it underscores the war of words i think we are going to witness ...

Outside advisors. those are among the questions that still have to be answered. but it is frankly his own best communicator even has he sees a need to ramp up. we have seen tweet storms from this president, another one just this morning, let me read from some of these, taking aim at adam schiff saying he illegally made up a fake and terrible statement, pretended it to be mine and read it along to the congress if bore no relationship to what i said on the treason. the president of the ukraine say...

And thats an understatement. >> thats true, that is true, one, i would say, on my side of the aisle, have made similar accusations about a network that is not cnn, well just leave it there. i would just say look, he is very critical of the press because he is consumed by the press. he uses tivo. he watches everything. he consumes everything. so his tweet storms are very much guided by what he has watched. and what he has seen. and you can see, he doesnt like good coverage. he lashes out, and so ...

Have to wrestle with as they head towards the general election is how to come up against trump. do you argue with him on his level and get pulled into the tweet storms and the inflammatory comments. do you keep advancing an affirmative vision for how you would govern as president? for the most part they did criticize trump and did stay away from his rhetoric. were making a mistake that hillary clinton did with her famous deplorables comment. >> david jolly in the studio last night. claire mccask...

Toe-to-toe with trump. you know, it looked like at the beginning of the week we could see a situation where a lot of the debates would be dominated by talk of trumps tweets about baltimore and chairman cummings and that actually is not what we saw. on one hand, as we were just talking about, you could see that as eating their own, but on the other i think this is something that democrats are going to have to wrestle with as they head towards the general election is how to come up against trump. ...